What is Potential energy?

I’m here trying to figure it out but I can’t remember. Help? ;-;

Potential energy, stored energy that depends upon the relative position of various parts of a system. ... A spring has more potential energy when it is compressed or stretched. A steel ball has more potential energy raised above the ground than it has after falling to Earth.

i think its control and coordinate because im pretty sure thats what tissue does and the joints are what control movement and then your skeletal/ bones provides portection. hope that .